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This notice is provided on behalf of the following entities:
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- VISION FINANCIAL MARKETS LLC
- VISION CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.
- VISION INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC
- VISION BROKERAGE SERVICES, L.L.C.
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- WHITEHALL INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT INC.
- TURTLE FUTURES FUND L.P.
- VISION FUTURES FUND L.L.C.
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(collectively, "Vision")
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PRIVACY NOTICE |
| Vision has always
been committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity
and security of personal information about our current and
prospective customers. We understand that privacy is an
important issue for you, and we want you to understand how
we work to protect your privacy when we collect information
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HOW WE OBTAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION |
In providing you
with financial products and services, or information about
such products and services, Vision may collect public and
non-public personal information about you from the following
sources:
- your account agreements and other related documents
and forms (for example, name, address, social security
number, birth date and financial information)
- transactions with Vision (for example, trading with
us, history of meeting margin calls, and your use of
various products and services that we provide)
- outside entities, including credit reporting agencies,
to obtain information (such as verification of identity,
credit-worthiness, credit history, purchasing and investment
preferences).
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HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION |
| It is our policy
not to release your personal information except as permitted
by law, requested by you or set forth below. Within Vision,
we restrict access to your personal information to those
who require it to provide products or services to you.
We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards
to protect your personal information. These safeguards include
limiting access to data and periodically testing our security
technology.
Within Vision we may share information about you for
several reasons, including:
- to assist us in providing services
- to help design and improve products
- to offer products and services that may be of interest
to you.
In the course of doing business we may share information
with third parties, which could include personal information
about you. Personal information may be shared with others
for the following reasons:
- in response to a subpoena
- to prevent fraud
- to comply with inquiries from government agencies
or other regulators
- for other legal purposes.
We also may share personal information:
- with others that service your accounts, or that
perform services on our behalf
- with others with whom we may have joint marketing
agreements. These include financial services companies
- financial services providers, such as introducing
brokers, broker/dealers, futures commission merchants,
investment companies, investment advisers, commodity
trading advisers and commodity pool operators
- publishers and other direct marketers of products
related to the financial services industry, such as
newsletter or book publishers and software or trading
system developers
- to other non-affiliated third parties with your
consent, at your request or as permitted or required
by law.
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OPT OUT NOTICE |
| If you prefer
that Vision not disclose non-public personal information
about you to non-affiliated third parties, you may opt out
of those disclosures. That is, you may direct Vision not
to make those disclosures, other than disclosures permitted
or required by law. Any customer who decides to opt out
of these disclosures to non-affiliated third parties must
notify us by sending an e-mail to
optout@visionfinancialmarkets.com.
Vision regularly provides notices to its customers regarding
its privacy policy. Vision reserves the right to change
this policy, and to apply changes to information previously
collected, as permitted by law. If there is any change to
this policy, Vision will provide its customers with a revised
privacy notice. To obtain further information, please call
our Customer Service Team at 800.440.6898.
January 31, 2007
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